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It technically compiles it to memory before running it, but the point is that you don't have to invoke javac first. It's a relatively new feature.

• metadat 2y ago
  Do you know for which Java version this first became available?
  • grishka 2y ago
    11: https://openjdk.org/jeps/330 https://openjdk.org/jeps/330 Oh so actually, you can use a shebang, just without the .java extension and with the "--source" flag, it's specifically written out in that spec. I was doing my experiment wrong!
    • metadat 2y ago
      Awesome, thanks for sharing!